Students' understanding of the learning goals of the unit will be assessed through both formative and summative assessment.
Formative assessment is incorporated into daily lessons, and will be completed using the following methods:
Identifying and addressing student misconceptions presented in warm-ups, group work, and discussion.
Reviewing and providing feedback on worksheets, questions, and homework where incorrect answers and/or incomplete understanding is present.
Monitoring student involvement in group work, activities, and labs.
It is important for formative assessment to take place on a daily basis because it provides the information needed to adjust teaching and learning as it is happening. These adjustments will help keep students on the right track by making sure their understanding is progressing throughout the unit and they are working towards achieving the learning goals. Formative assessment allows me to see how students are learning and the paths they are taking to get to that final point of understanding, rather than waiting until the end of the unit and having one of two outcomes -- they get it or they don't, and at this point it is usually too late to go back and reteach.
Summative assessment is incorporated throughout the unit as quizzes, and at the end of the unit as a comprehensive test. The quizzes provide benchmarks throughout the unit to see student acievement. Unlike formative assessment, students are graded on their performance on quizzes, which usually serves as a motivator for most students to want to do well. The end of unit test includes various components to provide students of all multiple intelligences the opportunity to excel. Multiple choice, fill in the blank, labeling, and short answer questions will all be incorporated in the test. The questions will reflect all four levels of Webb's Depth of Knowledge (recall/reproduction, skills/concepts, strategic thinking, and extended thinking), with emphasis on the more comprehensive and critical thinking questions, and fewer simple recall/reproduction questions. To help the students become comfortable taking the NECAP, the summative test will be formatted similar to that of the NECAP. Having the varying levels of knowledge and a similar format, taking the NECAP will be more familar to students and the layout will be one less thing to distract students from performing their best.
Formative assessment is incorporated into daily lessons, and will be completed using the following methods:
- Identifying and addressing student misconceptions presented in warm-ups, group work, and discussion.
- Reviewing and providing feedback on worksheets, questions, and homework where incorrect answers and/or incomplete understanding is present.
- Monitoring student involvement in group work, activities, and labs.
It is important for formative assessment to take place on a daily basis because it provides the information needed to adjust teaching and learning as it is happening. These adjustments will help keep students on the right track by making sure their understanding is progressing throughout the unit and they are working towards achieving the learning goals. Formative assessment allows me to see how students are learning and the paths they are taking to get to that final point of understanding, rather than waiting until the end of the unit and having one of two outcomes -- they get it or they don't, and at this point it is usually too late to go back and reteach.Summative assessment is incorporated throughout the unit as quizzes, and at the end of the unit as a comprehensive test. The quizzes provide benchmarks throughout the unit to see student acievement. Unlike formative assessment, students are graded on their performance on quizzes, which usually serves as a motivator for most students to want to do well. The end of unit test includes various components to provide students of all multiple intelligences the opportunity to excel. Multiple choice, fill in the blank, labeling, and short answer questions will all be incorporated in the test. The questions will reflect all four levels of Webb's Depth of Knowledge (recall/reproduction, skills/concepts, strategic thinking, and extended thinking), with emphasis on the more comprehensive and critical thinking questions, and fewer simple recall/reproduction questions. To help the students become comfortable taking the NECAP, the summative test will be formatted similar to that of the NECAP. Having the varying levels of knowledge and a similar format, taking the NECAP will be more familar to students and the layout will be one less thing to distract students from performing their best.
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